W L Ferguson
- author
- poems
- i sits an fidges
- leddy pouterlany
- a riever
- the lane mile
- homer--the merse farmer's version
- the whys an the wherefores
- tea
- heredity
- lines on a late gossip
- the ferm at e'en
- the wey to bunkle kirkyaird
- the pringle trust
- what the verter says
- scotland's complaynt, 1945.
- the gravedigger at c--
- the deputation seeks advice
- aurora
- dauvit
- tam gillies
- the swarry
- hydro-electromania
- the magic leaf
- the canon's lood report
- auld age
- faitherless
- craw wusdom
- cremation
- spoilt papers
- pan an syrinx
- "missin"
- disgruntl't
- auld "crutchie" to his cronie
- ootside the mission
- the deil at betty perk's
- "duns dings a'"
- forgotten days
- the ragged battalion
- the hauf-wut
- noey's troubles
- the dell's pairlor
- auld jeanie
- thowless tam
- my plantin,
- the gowden age
- lesbia's sparrie
- the tramp
- the saubbath schuil picnic
- the mairch hirin
- the corbie o hardens
- "arnold's"*
- never mair
- "i saw the sun"
- love an the sweep
- in the laich kirk
- to a bore
- the kirk-skailin
- in praise o merse
- merse memories
- forfouchen
- ither folk
- progress
- greyfriars cats
- a snuffbox hunt
- the drunken piper
Sources
Vignettes and Impressions in Scots and English Verse 1941-1943 by W L Ferguson;
Oliver and Boyd Ltd (Edinburgh and London) 1943.
A Makar's Medley: Poems in Scots by W L Ferguson;
Oliver and Boyd Ltd (Edinburgh and London) 1947.
Poems Scots and English by W L Ferguson;
Oliver and Boyd Ltd (Edinburgh and London) 1950.
Editing for Scotstext
- spurious apostrophes removed;
- spellings de-anglicised (eg 'took' changed to 'teuk');
- Scots spellings made more consistent (eg 'loof' changed to 'luif');
- Grammar edited somewhat in favour of more classical models of Scots.